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...I am just full of questions this week... Reviving this plural/singular keywording thread: I did not get a firm sense of how folks (like John B) would handle the 'irregular plurals'. Regular plurals, like cat/cats I understand (John's idea of using singular or plural as appropriate); even child/children would allow search on 'child' and 'contains child'. But- what is best way to ...

I guess a lot depends on whatever is used to search the data. If it's intelligent enough to return "man" when the search is for "men", then I can hold firm to my original singular/plural as appropriate line. But how many are that smart? A second thought is that the plural often represents a more generic way to describe the image. So after applying keywords that simply enumerate the ...

Further on the 'irregular plurals'- I guess it is also important for the user to decide if a 'too encompassing' strategy (ie- use just singular for all cases, or the plural for all cases) is something that can be lived with. If every grouping/singleton of a man is designated 'man', the user must live with groups of men when pix of 1 man was desired, etc. I'm leaning toward the '...